Jeb bush is going to run with whoever the repug candidate is...

[butterfly77]

I have been hearing this a lot out of the pugs. They are hoping he will run with the actor,who use to be a senator...

[brentblack]

1. If so...

...should be easy to defeat. Jeb Bush is a moron. He will drag down the ticket even if Fred Thompson is the lead candidate.

[RaleighNCDUer]

15. Jeb a moron? He is FAR smarter than *, soo...

ok, well, nevermind.

[izzie]

25. I took my name off the GOP voting list when RR ran.

I had had trouble for years in just what I was thinking having come from a GOP family that was not very nutty, like these people. But the party just went to far. Then Father Bush changed his way of thinking to get on the ticket and when they talked about his son running I laughed, as his history was so bad, who in their right mind would think he could be President. So much for me knowing how people vote.

[maddezmom]

2. Fred Thompson/Jeb Bush

:puke:

Thompson Could Fill the Missing Slot Peter Brown
Mon Mar 19, 8:30 AM ET



In most presidential campaigns, after the party nominations are settled, voters experience buyer's remorse: a sense that other candidates might have been a better choice.

What's fascinating about the 2008 Republican race is the widespread buyer's remorse a year before the primaries, almost a conventional wisdom that there must be a better choice for conservatives who dominate the GOP nomination process.

Largely because of that belief, a quiet effort has been underway to convince Fred Thompson, the former movie actor, turned U.S. senator, turned back into television star, to run.

Thompson, who was also a Watergate prosecutor, had previously discouraged suggestions he run. But he is now considering the race, amid indications his conservative record combined with a blue-collar, pickup-truck appeal, to independents and moderate Democrats might make him the right guy at the right time.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/realclearpolitics/20070319/cm_rcp/thompson_could_fill_the_missin

[butterfly77]

4. They are desperate...

[maddezmom]

7. bringing back Reagan, ie actors

ie: stooges. :eyes: Fred T is on the campaign to raise money for Libby.

[southerncrone]

10. If Jeb is VP, I suspect that the Prez candidate's days will be numbered.

Bush dynasty is not that patient. They will want Jebby in the lead role as quickly as possible. Papa is already upset that GW ran instead of Jeb in 2000.

Remember Ronnie Raygun's assassination attempt that didn't work out quite right?

:popcorn:

[KansDem]

13. You mean *the* assassination attempt by John Hinckley?

Neil Bush's perspective dinner guest and friend to the Bush Family?

Bush Son Had Dinner Plans With Hinckley Brother Before Shooting
The Associated Press Domestic News
March 31, 1981, Tuesday, PM cycle

John Hinckley
HOUSTON--The family of the man charged with trying to assassinate President Reagan is acquainted with the family of Vice President George Bush and had made large contributions to his political campaign, the Houston Post reported today.

The newspaper said in a copyright story, Scott Hinckley, brother of John W. Hinckley Jr., who allegedly shot Reagan, was to have dined tonight in Denver at the home of Neil Bush, one of the vice president's sons.

The newspaper said it was unable to reach Scott Hinckley, vice president of his father's Denver-based firm, Vanderbilt Energy Corp., for comment. Neil Bush lives in Denver, where he works for Standard Oil Co. of Indiana.

In 1978, Neil served as campaign manager for his brother, George W. Bush, the vice president's oldest son, who made an unsuccessful bid for Congress. Neil lived in Lubbock throughout much of 1978, where John Hinckley lived from 1974 through 1980.

On Monday, Neil Bush said he did not know if he had ever met 25-year-old John Hinckley.

Here in Reality

You mean that assassination attempt?

[NDP]

17. Well, that's the same way that I feel about any more liberal Dem President. Choose someone just as

liberal as you are. If you choose a DLCer, the "bigs" might take you out. I'm not saying the "DLCer" will take you out, but the powers that be might. Would we have been in Vietnam like we were if we had Kennedy instead of LBJ? Same thing.

[southerncrone]

22. The very one. Aren't they all so cozy?

[tsuki]

21. I started thinking the same thing. n/t

[AshevilleGuy]

11. Don't be fooled, Thompson would be a strong VP candidate.

He is capable of pulling in the white male voters, and as we know, WE have a hell of a time doing that!!!
Thompson would shore up Rudy with the gun-toting, homosexual hating, diversity hating rural male voters, and the repoobs know this. He wouldn't even have to campaign that way - those people would just KNOW, like with Nixon in 1968.

Jeb? Not this time - the repukes know that voters are sick of Bushes for now. He is young, he can wait. The bush family might try, but I suspect they will be disappointed; there are many powerful republics who have a different agenda.

[southerncrone]

23. Thompson will be very attractive to the GOP in his ability to bring in lots of voters,

John Q. Bubba and those who worship any "Movie Star".
There are loads of both in the GOP loyal voter pool.

I posted this about him b/4 when he first announced he was considering a run...He already has face & name recognition, plus he has already played the President in a movie a few years ago. Those dunderheads can't always discern between fiction & reality.

:eyes:

[AshevilleGuy]

24. Totally agree, AND he would help them vote for Rudy at the top of the ticket.

I think Rudy would have consderable trouble in many rural areas with the white males, but Thompson could wink and nod them into overlooking the fact that Rudy is from Noo Yawk.

[whistle]

3. Jeb Bush will run as VP, how so, candidates pick their own running mates

[Benhurst]

6. The Bush Family will make the candidate an offer he can't refuse. NT

[bigdarryl]

5. I have a better chance of becoming President that Fred Thompson PLEASE!!!

[TlalocW]

8. In a country that's not only fed up with GWBush

But where the majority hates his guts, I can't see Jeb helping the ticket.

TlalocW

[David Zephyr]

9. His bargaining chip? Florida's electoral votes.

Democrats need to focus on the West and the northern-most Southern states and the White House is ours.

[izzie]

12. I think he will run. Maybe not top man but on the ticket.

I have just had it with these same old people and families. Please some one, give us a brake from these people. I have had enough of these Right wing nut jobs in office. As it is now hardly a thing works right any more.

[KansDem]

14. That would be in line with the Bush Family's plans for the New World Order...

I kid my wife, who first voted in 1976, that the GOP has run either Bob Dole or a member of the Bush Family on its national ticket in every election she's voted in--that's 30 years and 8 elections.

It makes her cringe to think of it.

And Bob Dole was run as a sacrifice...

[NDP]

16. Like I said, if Hagel doesn't run, it's going to be Romney/J. Bush and the country may as well

cease to exist if it's a Clinton and a Bush on both tickets. Screw it. I could care less if it went to Hell at that point.

[BoneDaddy]

18. Good

that should ensure a victory for the Dems, because the name BUSH is so inspiring these days.

[Czolgosz]

19. I'm hearing that Jeb is going to sit this one out because he can't win, but is setting up for 2012.

Besides, Jeb is 100% on board with Romney. Maybe that will get him VP consideration from Romney (if that's what Jeb wants), but that is not going to win him any VP consideration from Guiliani or McCain or any fundamentalist wingjob to be named later.

[The Gunslinger]

20. The question is who will Jeb choose to run as his VP

I will not be convinced he is not running until it is too late for him to run.

[xkenx]

26. Works for me! Any Bush name on the ticket is a serious drag.